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    Swapping One Tech Hub For Another

    Feb 06, 2020 3 minutes
    By Bailey Marsheck
    Copyedited by Rebeca Toledo

    hen I moved to Beijing’s Haidian District in August 2019 to begin my studies at Peking University, I hadn’t foreseen how my lifestyle would be so fundamentally altered by the city’s deep technological interconnection. Yet only a few months later, the thought of handling payments with cash or debit/credit cards instead of WeChat, China’s popular multipurpose app, via a QR code seems practically arcane. In the United

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